January 18th Daily Blog

I got my Arduino Nano's for the muon detector today!!! Mr. Halstead ordered five, and right now I am focusing on making only one muon detector (I will probably end up making more later for many reasons) so I only took two of the nano's, one for the detector and one for learning how they work. Here are some pictures:

So, today in class I worked on downloading and setting up my computer to work on the arduino's. I downloaded ArduinoCreateAgent and created an online account so I could share the code via the internet. Here is the dashboard for my account (I didn't have time to get to the actual coding part today):

Angelina and I also heard from the MoonBase people for the first time in a very long time. Apparently, some of the kids from one of the other schools have been working on the project, but, they were not responding to any of our attempts to contact them. Mr. Heck reached out and sent out a power point, and we are planning a time to skype. If we can work this all out, it is my goal to be apart of this project. Here is the power point:

Last, but not least, I got an internship at CFHT! It is a small job right now, but I am hoping to work my way up to the dark matter team. My first job is working with the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer in creating a scale model out of legos. They want the model out of lego so it will be a cool thing to display, but the main reason I am helping with this is to help create an accurate model using mathematical modeling (I get to determine the scale and the details) and because they want someone to go through all the digital renderings of the current telescopes. The goal of this project is to replace their current 3.6 meter telescope with an 11.25 meter telescope (both weigh the same, so that part works out quite nicely). This project is just being started, so in building the model I might be able to help with some of the details of the design.